Research Guides: English Literature Research Guide: Databases and Journals for Articles

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Literature Resource Center (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Literature Resource Center combines Gale Literary Center with Gale Virtual Reference Library in one interface. Articles, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements.
Bloom's Literature (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Bloom's Literature Reference Center examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
ProQuest Learning: Literature (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Full-text works of poetry, prose and drama, and secondary sources such as author biographies, literary criticisms, essays, reviews and interviews. Designed with schools and public libraries in mind.
American Poetry (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Poems written from 1650-1920.
African-American Poetry (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Poems from 1750-1900.
English Poetry (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
Find poems written from 600 to 1900.
Twentieth-Century English Poetry (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
A collection of more than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day.
ProQuest Central (opens in new window) This link opens in a new window
General reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.

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Journal of Modern Literature
The Journal of Modern Literature remains a leading scholarly journal in the field of modern and contemporary literature and is widely recognized as such.
New Literary History
New Literary History focuses on questions of theory, method, interpretation, and literary history.
Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature
Founded in 2012, the International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature (IJALEL) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed international journal that covers the latest developments in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Linguistics and Literature.
Studies in English Literature, 1500 - 1900
SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century.
English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
ELT publishes articles on fiction, poetry, drama, or subjects of cultural interest in the 1880–1920 period of British literature.
Shakespeare Quarterly
Shakespeare Quarterly (SQ) is a leading journal in Shakespeare studies, publishing highly original, rigorously researched essays, notes, and book reviews.